Mechanical Engineer Jobs at MongoDB with Visa Sponsorship
Mechanical Engineer roles at MongoDB sit at the intersection of hardware infrastructure and software-driven product development, supporting the physical systems that power enterprise technology at scale. MongoDB has a consistent record of sponsoring work visas across engineering functions, making it a viable target for internationally qualified mechanical engineers.
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MongoDB Technical Services Engineers use their outstanding problem solving and customer service skills, along with their deep technical experience, to advise customers and to solve their complex MongoDB problems. Technical Service Engineers are specialists in the entire MongoDB ecosystem - database server, drivers, our management suite, as well as services such as Atlas, Cloud Manager, Compass to name a few. Our engineers combine their MongoDB expertise with passion, initiative, teamwork, and a great sense of humor to achieve exceptional results for our customers. We’re looking for individuals who want to dig into the details of how “big data” and “web-scale” systems are successfully assembled and operated every day by organizations of every size and flavor.
Shift Information:
* We are looking to speak to candidates who are interested in working out of our Palo Alto, CA office under our in-office working model Monday to Friday for the first 3-6 months depending on ramping speed.
* Once considered ramped, they will transition to a permanent Wednesday - Sunday 8am-5pm work week (with 3 in-office days) to provide weekend coverage alongside other peers. Saturdays and Sundays are considered fully online workdays and not an on-call shift.
* Due to the 24/7 nature of our support organization, certain events throughout the year will require volunteering for coverage outside one’s normal work days or work hours (i.e. regional offsites, regional holidays, etc). These are typically announced weeks in advance with a sign-up system that considers equitability.
Why MongoDB is a fantastic place to work and build your career
* Be a part of the company that’s reinventing the database, passionate about innovation and speed
* Enjoy a fun, inspiring culture that is engineering focused
* Work with exceptionally talented people around the globe
* Learn, contribute, and make an impact on the product and community
Cool things you’ll do
* In this cross‑functional role as a Technical Services Engineer, you will work with the largest and most demanding customers to drive successful implementations of MongoDB Server, MongoDB Search, and managed backups on Kubernetes platforms
* Enhance your technical troubleshooting expertise and experience as a TSE (Technical Services Engineer) by working on customer use cases, evaluating solutions, customer business pain points, application architectures, and Cloud infrastructure configurations
* Collaborate with enterprise customers to design, implement, and troubleshoot backup strategies for massive production environments—scaling to petabytes of data—while ensuring high availability, disaster recovery readiness, and compliance with retention requirements
* Opportunity to shape the roadmap of products, tooling, and the core database by providing product feedback
What You Need/What we are looking for
* Patience, empathy, and a genuine desire to help others
* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with internal and external stakeholders
* The ability to think on your feet, remain calm under pressure, and find solutions to challenges in real-time
* Strong diagnostic/troubleshooting aptitude, with significant experience troubleshooting end-to-end technical issues in production environments
* Full understanding of Linux systems and networking concepts, including firewalls, load balancers, performance tuning, storage management
* 1+ years of experience in a Support role working directly with customers.
* 2+ years of experience with administering RDBMSs such as Oracle, Postgres, mySQL etc. MongoDB experience is preferred.
* 3+ years or more of combined experience in the following technical domains (ideally with some experience in the rest)
+ Experience operating in and managing Kubernetes clusters.
+ Experience with DevOps practices and Infrastructure-as-code.
+ Experience with Disaster Recovery situations (Backup management, Snapshot Restores, Return-to-service operations)
* 5+ years of mixed experience with Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and on-prem infrastructure administration in a production environment.
Bonus Points
* Experience with AI topics, development, and supporting technologies such as Vector Search
* Experience managing large-scale databases (RDBMS or NoSQL or both) and monitoring them via products like Prometheus or Grafana
* Experience with specific MongoDB products like Ops Manager, Cloud Manager, Atlas, Kubernetes Operator/Controller
* Experience coding in one or more of Python, Java, Go, Ruby, C, C++
* Experience with personal test labs and reproducing issues locally to drive resolution of issues
* Experience working on weekends or outside of typical business hours
Success Measures
* In 3 months, you’ll have gained a deep understanding of MongoDB and its ecosystem. You will complete New Hire Training
* In 6 months or less, you will be comfortable working frontline with our customers and will have transitioned to weekends; You will also complete the MongoDB Certified DBA Associate exam
* In 12 months or less, you will be a technical specialist within MongoDB and will be helping your peer engineers in advanced diagnostics. Also, you will be encouraged to handle technical escalations independently
About MongoDB
MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market—helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 customers—including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups—relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software. Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.
To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!
MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
REQ ID: 4263315122
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package.
Other benefits for eligible employees may include:
* equity,
* participation in the employee stock purchase program,
* flexible paid time off,
* 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave,
* fertility and adoption assistance,
* 401(k) plan,
* mental health counseling,
* access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage,
* and health benefits offerings.
Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is: $90,000—$176,000 USD
About The Team
MongoDB Technical Services Engineers use their outstanding problem solving and customer service skills, along with their deep technical experience, to advise customers and to solve their complex MongoDB problems. Technical Service Engineers are specialists in the entire MongoDB ecosystem - database server, drivers, our management suite, as well as services such as Atlas, Cloud Manager, Compass to name a few. Our engineers combine their MongoDB expertise with passion, initiative, teamwork, and a great sense of humor to achieve exceptional results for our customers. We’re looking for individuals who want to dig into the details of how “big data” and “web-scale” systems are successfully assembled and operated every day by organizations of every size and flavor.
Shift Information:
* We are looking to speak to candidates who are interested in working out of our Palo Alto, CA office under our in-office working model Monday to Friday for the first 3-6 months depending on ramping speed.
* Once considered ramped, they will transition to a permanent Wednesday - Sunday 8am-5pm work week (with 3 in-office days) to provide weekend coverage alongside other peers. Saturdays and Sundays are considered fully online workdays and not an on-call shift.
* Due to the 24/7 nature of our support organization, certain events throughout the year will require volunteering for coverage outside one’s normal work days or work hours (i.e. regional offsites, regional holidays, etc). These are typically announced weeks in advance with a sign-up system that considers equitability.
Why MongoDB is a fantastic place to work and build your career
* Be a part of the company that’s reinventing the database, passionate about innovation and speed
* Enjoy a fun, inspiring culture that is engineering focused
* Work with exceptionally talented people around the globe
* Learn, contribute, and make an impact on the product and community
Cool things you’ll do
* In this cross‑functional role as a Technical Services Engineer, you will work with the largest and most demanding customers to drive successful implementations of MongoDB Server, MongoDB Search, and managed backups on Kubernetes platforms
* Enhance your technical troubleshooting expertise and experience as a TSE (Technical Services Engineer) by working on customer use cases, evaluating solutions, customer business pain points, application architectures, and Cloud infrastructure configurations
* Collaborate with enterprise customers to design, implement, and troubleshoot backup strategies for massive production environments—scaling to petabytes of data—while ensuring high availability, disaster recovery readiness, and compliance with retention requirements
* Opportunity to shape the roadmap of products, tooling, and the core database by providing product feedback
What You Need/What we are looking for
* Patience, empathy, and a genuine desire to help others
* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with internal and external stakeholders
* The ability to think on your feet, remain calm under pressure, and find solutions to challenges in real-time
* Strong diagnostic/troubleshooting aptitude, with significant experience troubleshooting end-to-end technical issues in production environments
* Full understanding of Linux systems and networking concepts, including firewalls, load balancers, performance tuning, storage management
* 1+ years of experience in a Support role working directly with customers.
* 2+ years of experience with administering RDBMSs such as Oracle, Postgres, mySQL etc. MongoDB experience is preferred.
* 3+ years or more of combined experience in the following technical domains (ideally with some experience in the rest)
+ Experience operating in and managing Kubernetes clusters.
+ Experience with DevOps practices and Infrastructure-as-code.
+ Experience with Disaster Recovery situations (Backup management, Snapshot Restores, Return-to-service operations)
* 5+ years of mixed experience with Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and on-prem infrastructure administration in a production environment.
Bonus Points
* Experience with AI topics, development, and supporting technologies such as Vector Search
* Experience managing large-scale databases (RDBMS or NoSQL or both) and monitoring them via products like Prometheus or Grafana
* Experience with specific MongoDB products like Ops Manager, Cloud Manager, Atlas, Kubernetes Operator/Controller
* Experience coding in one or more of Python, Java, Go, Ruby, C, C++
* Experience with personal test labs and reproducing issues locally to drive resolution of issues
* Experience working on weekends or outside of typical business hours
Success Measures
* In 3 months, you’ll have gained a deep understanding of MongoDB and its ecosystem. You will complete New Hire Training
* In 6 months or less, you will be comfortable working frontline with our customers and will have transitioned to weekends; You will also complete the MongoDB Certified DBA Associate exam
* In 12 months or less, you will be a technical specialist within MongoDB and will be helping your peer engineers in advanced diagnostics. Also, you will be encouraged to handle technical escalations independently
About MongoDB
MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market—helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 customers—including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups—relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software. Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.
To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!
MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
REQ ID: 4263315122
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package.
Other benefits for eligible employees may include:
* equity,
* participation in the employee stock purchase program,
* flexible paid time off,
* 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave,
* fertility and adoption assistance,
* 401(k) plan,
* mental health counseling,
* access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage,
* and health benefits offerings.
Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is: $90,000—$176,000 USD
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Align your credentials to hardware infrastructure roles
MongoDB's mechanical engineering needs center on data center hardware, cooling systems, and server infrastructure. Frame your resume around thermal management, structural analysis, or hardware lifecycle work rather than manufacturing or automotive experience.
Verify your degree field matches specialty occupation standards
USCIS requires that your degree field directly corresponds to the mechanical engineering role. A degree in mechanical or systems engineering is straightforward. A related field like physics or materials science needs a clear skills-based connection to the job duties in your offer letter.
Target MongoDB's infrastructure and hardware engineering teams
MongoDB posts mechanical engineer roles across data center operations and physical product teams. Filtering by department rather than title alone surfaces relevant openings that explicitly list visa sponsorship, so you avoid wasting applications on roles without authorization.
Use Migrate Mate to track MongoDB's open mechanical engineer roles
MongoDB's sponsorship-eligible mechanical engineer positions aren't always easy to identify from a standard job board. Migrate Mate filters specifically for visa-sponsoring roles at MongoDB so you can prioritize your applications accurately and efficiently.
Prepare for a timeline gap between offer and start date
H-1B cap-subject filings have an October 1 start date, meaning an offer made in Q1 or Q2 can mean a months-long wait. If you're on F-1 OPT, confirm your OPT expiration date against that timeline and ask MongoDB's HR team about cap-exempt options or bridge arrangements.
Request LCA details before accepting an offer
Your employer files a Labor Condition Application with DOL before your H-1B petition. Ask MongoDB's immigration team for the prevailing wage level used in your LCA. If the offered salary falls at a level that mismatches your role's complexity, it can create delays or RFEs at USCIS.
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Does MongoDB sponsor H-1B visas for Mechanical Engineers?
Yes, MongoDB sponsors H-1B visas for Mechanical Engineer roles. Sponsorship is available for both cap-subject H-1B petitions and transfer cases where you already hold H-1B status with another employer. MongoDB works with immigration counsel to handle the Labor Condition Application filing with DOL and the I-129 petition with USCIS, so the process is employer-managed once you have a confirmed offer.
How do I apply for Mechanical Engineer jobs at MongoDB?
Apply directly through MongoDB's careers portal and filter by engineering or infrastructure roles. Read each job description carefully for language confirming visa sponsorship eligibility, as not every posting is sponsorship-eligible. Migrate Mate surfaces MongoDB's open mechanical engineer roles that explicitly support visa sponsorship, making it easier to prioritize the right applications from the start.
Which visa types does MongoDB commonly use for Mechanical Engineers?
MongoDB sponsors H-1B, E-3, TN, F-1 OPT, F-1 CPT, and Green Card pathways including EB-2 and EB-3 for engineering roles. Australian citizens are eligible for the E-3 visa, which bypasses the H-1B lottery. Canadian and Mexican citizens may qualify under TN status for mechanical engineering roles, which are explicitly listed as a qualifying TN occupation category.
What qualifications does MongoDB expect for Mechanical Engineer roles?
MongoDB's mechanical engineering roles typically require a bachelor's degree or higher in mechanical engineering or a closely related field. Hands-on experience with data center infrastructure, thermal or structural analysis, or hardware systems is valued over general manufacturing backgrounds. For USCIS specialty occupation purposes, your degree field must correspond directly to the specific duties outlined in your offer letter.
How long does the visa sponsorship process take for a Mechanical Engineer offer at MongoDB?
Timeline depends on visa type. E-3 and TN cases can move within weeks of an offer. H-1B cap-subject petitions follow a fixed cycle with a lottery in March and an October 1 start date, so a spring offer may mean a five-to-seven month wait. USCIS premium processing is available for H-1B petitions and returns a decision within 15 business days of receipt.
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